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Swayze had one job when Mayor Larry Snively accused Coun. Sherry Bondy of repeatedly and publicly criticizing E.L.K. Energy Inc., the town’s electrical distribution company serving Essex, Leamington and Kingsville.
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His job was to investigate the complaint and determine what happened, what council’s code of conduct says, whether Bondy violated that code and, if she did, what council should do about it.
But Swayze went further, much further.
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At Monday’s Zoom council meeting, Swayze went further than his report, saying Bondy had mayoral ambitions but was “a maverick without support” on council: “A maverick mayor would be a four-year disaster.” Essex Coun. Sherry Bondy is pictured in the Town of Essex on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
Before the vote, Bondy, who has declared her intention to run for mayor next year, said those like her who ask difficult questions face bullying of their own, and she pointed a finger at Snively. “The mayor’s continued harassment of me is creating a toxic work environment.”
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“This is politically motivated by the mayor,” said Bondy. The town’s Harrow representative has made it no secret she intends to challenge Snively for the mayoralty in October 2022. Essex Coun. Sherry Bondy is pictured in the Town of Essex on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
Contacted Thursday, Snively told the Star he wouldn’t comment ahead of the integrity commissioner’s report going before town council. “Let’s just wait until the council meeting on Monday.”
In his three-page report, Swayze writes that Bondy “has a long history of aggressively criticizing the staff” at E.L.K., the municipally owned electric distribution company that serves Essex, Lakeshore and Kingsville. Her outspokenness, particularly in response to power outage complaints by constituents, led to her receiving a letter in November 2019 from colleagues on the E.L.K. board “advising her that she was in breach of her legal duties and obligations a
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